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Making your life easier?

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heepie · 14/04/2009 04:15

Hi. I'm an at home mum trying to come up with a new business idea (another as the one I've worked on for a year has just been done by someone else). Please tell me if you can think of anything that would make your life easier, that you don't now have (and I know already we all need lots more cash!).

Please send all ideas my way, no matter how silly.

Thank you.

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moondog · 14/04/2009 06:32

What would be great would be a register of people who were good at a variety of things such as gardening/ironing/sewing/cleaning/simple DIY that you could hire for a couple of hours to get all the niggly little jobs done.

stayinbed · 14/04/2009 22:15

online donation of old baby/children stuff - no cash passed hands, stuff gets collected from you, no need to fuss about sending it to someone

a resource with games and activities that i can follow and teach my baby what she needs to learn (beyond the speak to her as you run your errands, download this funny image and colour in etc)

a mums twitter so i can join an alpha mum's micro blog and remember to sign up my kids for this or that when she does, etc etc

cinnamon81 · 14/04/2009 22:18

Some kind of contraption to catch the food that my daughter throws from her highchair 3 times a day. Those plastic sheet things are too hard to clean and I've given up and am back to grudgingly scrubbing the floor thrice daily. Suppose it's the cleanest it's ever been....

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bumpybecky · 14/04/2009 22:22

cinnamon81 you need a dog - excellent for under highcahir cleaning IME

Othersideofthechannel · 15/04/2009 14:52

How about a service where you pop round just after meals with a hungry dog?

laraeo · 15/04/2009 18:13

I've been thinking about this a lot in the past week after I went shopping with DS. Some sort of creche facility at the mall. Security with digital camera - photos of DC & parent so they could match up when they came to collect them.... I would definitely pay for a couple of hours of "relaxed" shopping.

Portoeufino · 15/04/2009 18:22

When I had dd I wished I could "rent-a-friend". All mine worked full time and had no dcs at the time - I led the way . I would have loved someone to come round and make a bit of a fuss when dh went back to work. Do a bit of washing, make some bottles. Make me a cup of tea. Not so much looking after the baby but the other stuff you have to do. And have a chat. I was starved of human company.

christmasmum · 16/04/2009 17:12

I really really struggle to get babysitting as I have recently moved to a new area and have to rely on friends when they are available and it's always a bit awkward.

What would be really would be to have a booking and reference system for local teenagers/mums wanting to earn extra money so you know they're going to be OK to leave your little angels with!

naomi83 · 17/04/2009 06:54

love the idea of creche at the shopping centre, or supermarket.

tostaky · 17/04/2009 07:44

stayinbed - whatabout your local freecycle group for used babay stuff www.uk.freecycle.org/

and what about mini and moi for the alpha-mums blog (london only) mini-et-moi.com/

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